Txirrita
Sign in to saveJose Manuel Lujanbio Retegi (also known as Txirrita, ), born on Hernani in 1860 and died in Altza in 1936, was a Basque composer of verse, known as bertsolaris.
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- Born
- 1860
- Died
- 1936
- Works
- 1
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- Txirrita (Jose Manuel Lujanbio Retegi, 1860-1936)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of death
- Altza
- Occupation
- stonemason
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Genre
- bertsolaritza
- Image
- Txirrita eta Saiburu koloretan.jpg
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- Commons category
- Txirrita
- date of death
- 1936-06-03
- date of birth
- 1860-08-14
- birth name
- Jose Manuel Luxambio Retegui
- pseudonym
- Txirrita
- ethnic group
- Basques
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Works in European collections
6 objects attributed to Txirrita, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Life
- Txirrita the bertsolari
- Legacy
- References
Jose Manuel Lujanbio Retegi (also known as Txirrita, ), born on Hernani in 1860 and died in Altza in 1936, was a Basque composer of verse, known as bertsolaris.
== Life == He was born in the Ereñozu neighborhood of Hernani and when he was still a child, his family moved to a baserri in Errenteria named Txirrita, from whence he acquired his nickname. In his last years he lived in the Gazteluene baserri in Altza.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Txirrita” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.